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Drosophila melanogaster
A newly started culture with about 50 flies in a ventilated cup with media, more than plenty to begin breeding even if there are partial loses in postage! Newly started cultures take about 2 weeks to produce adult flies in ideal (warm) conditions. For those looking for more instant reproduction, there are established cultures.
Note: Adult flies from this culture should be used to make new cultures before the best before date passes for best results!
We recommend reading a caresheet or quick reference sheet prior to diving into culturing fruit flies.
Fruit flies are an ideal source of food for small or young predatory critters that can eat pinhead sized crickets- tropical fish and fry, frogs, tiny mantids, spiders, ants, small insect eating birds and much more!
Culturing crickets to get a constant supply of pinheads to feed can be time consuming and take up a lot of room. Hundreds of fruit flies can come out of one cup culture, and they can easily be split to form new cultures.
These flies cannot fly due to a vestigial wing trait, but may hop a tiny distance.
Each fly is about 2.5mm long.